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of the 
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(Hh^^ £o5 Ancjelp Aquehut t 
(Exposition l^ark 



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Nineteen ?6undre5 (thirteen 




(Tompiimcnisof (Shr los Atigclrs (Fdcbraticin ((rommis»ion 

/Oc^igned. Compiled and turitten bg T.B.3t>al>i«on- 



CorYiiu;HT 1913 
By Los Angei.es Chamueh ok Commerce 

THIS BOOK NOT EOH SALE 

A COPY 3IAV BE FOUND IN THE PUBLIC 

LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT THE 

UNITED STATES 



ENGRAVINGS BV B R Y AN - B R A NDEN BU RG CO 

PRINTING AND BINDING BY 

KINGSLEY. MASON a COLLINS CO 



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Mayor H. H. ROSE 

Chief Engineer - WILLIAM MULHOLLAND 

ASSISTANT Chief Engineer - J. B. LIPPINCOTT 



OFFICERS AND COMMITTEEMEN 

OF THE 

LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT AND EXPOSITION PARK 
CELEBRATION COMMISSION 



OFFICERS 

president. JOSEPH D. RADFORD 

TREASURER. FRANK WIGGINS 

secretary. F B. DAVISON 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

JOSEPH D. RADFORD. Chairman 
W M. BOWEN M. A. HAMBURGER ROBERT WANKOWSKI 

A. J. COPP. JR. G. J. KUHRTS PERRY W WEIDNER 

F B. DAVISON M. C. NEUNER FRANK WIGGINS 

M H. FLINT H Z OSBORNE F. J. ZEEHANDELAAR 

FINANCE COMMITTEE 

M A HAMBURGER. Chairman 
FRED L BORUFF LOUIS M COLE PAUL SHOUP 

WILLIS H BOOTH G J KUHRTS PERRY W. WEIDNER 

F. X. PFAFFINGER 

SPEAKERS AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 

FRANK WIGGINS. Chairman 
PERCY H. CLARK GEORGE ALEXANDER 

FRED E. PIERCE H. S, McCALLUM 

INVITATION COMMITTEE 

H. Z. OSBORNE, Chairman 
J. A. ANDERSON MRS. A. S. LOBINGIER 

WILLIS H. BOOTH JOHN PARKINSON 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

ROBERT WANKOWSKI. Chairman 
W, M BOWEN WM D. STEPHENS 

E W. MURPHY N. W. THOMPSON 

H C. HUBBARD GARNER CURRAN 

ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE 

A. J. COPP. JR . CHAIRMAN 

JOHN BURR A. W KINNEY JAMES SLAUSON 

M. H. FLINT R W PRIDHAM B F WOLFF 

p. M. WRIGHT 

MUSIC COMMITTEE 

F. J. ZEEHANDELAAR. CHAIRMAN 
F, W, BLANCHARD JAMES SLAUSON 

F. B DAVISON FRED L BORUFF 

FOUNTAIN COMMITTEE 

M. C NEUNER. Chairman 
W M BOWEN JOHN PARKINSON J. F. SARTORI 

M A HAMBURGER FRED E. PIERCE JAMES SLAUSON 

G. J KUHRTS R W. PRIDHAM FRANK WIGGINS 



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Government/il Recognilion 

The Chamber of Commerce Cum- 

mittee which represented the City of 

Los Angeles in Washington. L>. C., 

1:^05, and so ably presented the need of"': 

till (_ 'ity:and the man who listened and grouped 

that need, and asked the Congress of the I'nited 

States to grant it. Then the icaters from the Sierras 

became ours, ami the Aqueduct was assured. 



1 Tlieodore Roosevelt. President. ll'O.H 

2 W. J. Washburn. Pres. Chamber of Commerce, luor, 
S J. O. Koepfli. Chairman of Committee 



4 \\'illiam Mulholland, Chief Engineer 

5 Frank P. Flint. Senator. IMS 

6 W. B. Mathews, Aqueduct Attorney 



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Pronouncement 



HE dual celebration evidenced herein marks the com- 
pletion of two great institutions which are without 
peers in this or any other country. 

THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT 

Not since the days of Caesar and the Roman Aqueduct 
has the world recorded engineering accomplishment aque- 
ductorial, equal to this great gathering of the waters from 
the snow-capped peaks of the Sierras and their conduct o'er 
mountain and plain for a distance of over two hundred miles 
to the Incomparable City of the Golden West — Los Angeles ! 

Eight years of ceaseless application of brain and brawn 
and twenty-four and one-half million dollars, constitute this 
heroic monument to the ability of man and the devotion of 
a people. 

The Los Angeles Aqueduct brings pure mountain water 
from the main range of the Sierra Nevadas, a distance of 
two hundred eighteen miles, across deserts and through 
mountains, in sufficient quantity to supply a city of two 
million inhabitants. It is a gravity system throughout, no 
pumping plants being required. It will deliver two hundred 
fifty-eight million gallons, net, every twenty-four hours, 
into reservoirs nearly one thousand feet above the city. 
The Los Angeles Aqueduct consists of ninetj'-eight miles 
of covered cement conduit, forty miles uncovered, twenty- 
one miles of open canal, twelve miles of inverted siphons, 
forty-three miles of tunnels through mountains, ten to 
thirteen feet in diameter, and four reservoirs along the line, 
each capable of containing three months' supply. This 
entire work v/as conceived and carried out by Chief En- 
gineer William Mulholland, assisted by Assistant Chief 
Engineer J. B. Lippincott and an able staflF. 

The water power will be utilized in its descent of several 
thousand feet from its source in eventually producing one 
hundred twenty thousand horsepower, peak load, of elec- 
trical energy, which will be used for the City's light and 
power, and the sale of which will eventually liquidate the 
bonds and interest of both the aqueduct and electrical 
plants. 



The Los Angeles Aqueduct constitutes one of the largest 
engineering and water transmission accomplishments in 
the world. 

EXPOSITION PARK 

No other city on earth boasts an aggregation of educa- 
tional, athletic, amusement and military institutions equal 
to those contained in that charming area known as Exposi- 
tion Park, situated in the heart of the City of Los Angeles. 

A monument to the tireless, sacrificial devotion of one 
man to a principle. Exposition Park, an asset of the State 
of California, valued at three million dollars, stands today 
for a permanent exposition of the resources and industries 
of the great State of California ; it stands for the historical 
and art past, present and future of Los Angeles, and it 
stands for the military arm of our country ; for in this park 
are three great modern, fireproof buildings, each costing a 
quarter-milhon dollars, for the housing of these interests. 

Two athletic fields grace this park — one for children, cov- 
ering seven acres, and the other for adults, covering forty 
acres ; each to be equipped with appliances which mark per- 
fection in modern playgrounds. 

Here, too, are sunken gardens, fountains, a speedway 
unexcelled, grandstands, an area set apart for annual agri- 
cultural and industrial fairs, greenhouses and other fea- 
tures, built or contemplated in the plan for the installation 
of this Pride of Los Angeles. 

Two special days were dedicated to the ceremonies touch- 
ing the consummation of these two projects ; the first in the 
beautiful San Fernando Valley at the mouth of the Aque- 
duct, where the water was turned on, for the first time, with 
appropriate ceremonies, and the second in the city, where 
special attractions were presented, making it so pleasant and 
profitable as to compel the tarrying of guests and visitors 
for a season. 

To the formal opening of these two great institutions we 
owe this opportunity of presenting you and the world this 
commemoration. 

LOS ANGELES CELEBRATION COMMISSION 



Secretary 



To the 
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 

A Tribute 

THE enduring, monumental works of history which 
mark the epochs of progress can ever be traced to 
some power great enough to dream, or grasp, a vision, 
and strong enough to give it being. Such great works are 
the Panama Canal and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, two 
world-famed engineering accomplishments which the year 
Nineteen Hundred Thirteen has given to history. 

The one, greatest of its kind in all history, is world-famed 
as the accomplishment of an incomparable Nation. The 
other now takes such place in history as the accomplishment 
of an incomparable City. It heralds a world of greater 
achievement and resulting glory. The ripple of its waters 
from the snow-capped Sierras will be, till time is not, a 
silver-tongued seraph, singing the praise of the Los Angeles 
Chamber of Commerce — that body of men known and writ- 
ten in every clime because of things accomplished — which 
nursed the infant thought, clothed it with the mantle of 
approval, shielded it from design, and failed it not in any 
hour of need through growing years of seeming vicissitudes. 

To no other agency is due equal thanks for this great 
work. 




1 Joseph I). Radford, (7KfuiH</ii 5G. J.Kulirts 

2 Frank WisKins 6 Motley H. Hint 



3 Wni. M. BoM-eii 
4 K. B. Davison 



10 A. J. Copp. Jr. 

11 Koht. Wankowski 
7 M. A. Hamburger 12 ''cr".,",- y''','''"" , 

8 H. Z. Oslxirnc 13 K. J. /.eeliandelaar 

9 M. C. Ncuner 




And Bfhold! A n,'i: 
Light, beaming a IVel- 
ctmie Jar onl lo xra , and 
over the City of Deslini/ 
fulfilled — the Great 
Metropolis of the Great 
West — Los Angeles the 
lucomparahle 




K,vpositio)i Park 

Lo.i Angeles' greatest 
phit/grouiul , flunked hi/ 
the State Exposition 
Building, the Stale Ar- 
mor,!/ II nd the domed 
( 'oiintii Museum ofliisto- 
ri/, Srienrc and Art 




The Sierras 

From whence cometh 
Los Angeles -water, high 
up in the Sierras, -where 
nature aerates and cools 
and pours her bountij'ul 
s upp ly of life-g i v i n g 
waters into the Aqueduct 
for the healing of theCity 




PionetT.s 



These faithful , surefooled beasts were the tr/iiisportatioii 

solution to othencise iuarcessible ilistricts iiloiig the line 

of the Aqueduct, carrying provisions, \cater and dynamite 
before roads zcere built 




The City qi 
Honif.i, liomi'i) 





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Great 

Concrete 

Fhimc 

This scene, slioicniii I lie 
great JJ lime crossing it 
gulch in the Jii-icbone can- 
yon, might he taken for a 
y^ai of the Roman Aqiie- 
(fucl 








Buildiag Permits 
e-M-i-/-l i-o-/i-s-^ 

Los A ngeles ichispered One Million 
in the early ''90s. Ltiler .she talked 
Millioii.i" and kepi it upj'or ten 
years. SOW, she shouts in tens (jf 
millions and droicns all roices except 
\eK- York, Chicago, Philadelphia and 
Boston 






Our Growth X 


.E«R 


NO. PERMITS 


VALUATION 


1890 


737 


$1,194,939 


1895 


2.462 


4.930,473 


1900 


1.922 


2.517.966 


1905 


9,543 


15,482,067 


1910 


10.738 


21,684.100 


1911 


12,408 


23,004,185 


1912 


16.453 


31,366,357 




Inverted 
Siphon 

One of the 
(eleven ) 
great, legless, 
vrauinig t/iiiigs cnlleil inver- 
ted siphons, first seen in n 
dreinn oj'the chi(^' engineer, 
but noxs> a reality, carrying 
pure niou7itain waterfront 
crest to crest, on and on, to 
the threshold of the Great 
City 




Froiii till' 
Mountains 
to the Sea 
in (III Hour 

11 lie re else do 

l/ic confincx (i/' 

II shigli' liniir 

cum /)(' II xa I r 

-,iil/i a dip ill I lie xiirf, 

II drive lliroiin/i ii xcorld 

"J J I' II i / K " " '/ ./' " "' erx , 

under tlie influence oj 

limitlesx xuiixliiiie , li> n 

hiiltle nfxmni: hiillx iniiotig 

the eloudx? 



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A section of the eleven 
foot pipe of ptoxperity 
crossing Solediiil Can- 
yon 



Postoffice Receipts 



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case 

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The 


World 




Our Growth | 




1890 


$ 97.754 27 




1895 


177.911.04 




1900 


258.047.28 




1905 


719.023.13 




1906 


850.579.01 




1907 


1.039.547.51 




1908 


l.089.49;!.04 




1909 


1.276.(;64.07 




1910 


1.476.941.52 




1911 


1.646.601.84 




1912 


1.906,518.68 








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The Uahcee 
Reservoir 

One of the four .storage 
reservoirs, seven and one- 
half miles long xcith an 
average depth of forty - 
five feet, holding its part 
of a suppli/ of u-ater for 
(I citfi of one million peo- 
ple for a ichole year with- 
out drawing upon other 
resources 



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Ltis Angeles 

Hibei-nitin Savings 

Bank 



IMS Angeles > 

Trust and Sarlngs 
Binik 



Bank 
Clearings 

The Los Angeles 
Bank Barometer 

Our Growth 



1890 $ 

1895 

1900 

1906 

1906 

1907 

1908 

1909 

1910 

1911 

1912 1 



36,019,721 
57,046,832 
113,766.378 
479,985,293 
678,635.517 
581,870.627 
505.588.756 
673,165.728 
811,377.487 
943,963,357 
,168,941,700 




City and County 
Roads 

Four hundred miles of perfect 
roads lure the motorist to a 
ceaseless charm zchich lurks 
throughout the orange, the 
olive, and the eucalijptus 
groves, over au-e- inspiring 
mountain ranges, into deep 
canyons, and along the sea- 
shore (if Los Angeles County 




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Nl^tepALAPPROACH T O SAN DIEGO EXPQ51T ION [ 





" We.shcard Ihe coiirxe of 
Empire'^ has a xiaiff. 
Los Angeles, Ihe Gate- 
xciit/ to the great nine- 
teen fifteen expositions, 
has a movement all its 
oicn. " ('ome and see! 




Saint Peter's, Rome, nor 
the Cathedral at Cologne, 
nor yet Notre Dame, hath 
the quiet, re.itful gran- 
deur i\f the Missions of 
Southern California in and 
arouud Los Angeles 




Oin- 

Parks 

Four llionxinid 
rcxlj'iil p(t lit 
iicrc.s greet the 
/kixIxw/iocdiiic 
mill seeiiiiiliire 
(■(iiii/iiered, iiiiiiiinllij 
jiiirks -chose .setiii-tropiriil 
trees mill eleniiil -cCenr- 
"'A' of the green" ooze 
lieiilt/i and /iii/)/)iiirss iii- 
eessiinlhj 




Santa Fe 



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That which Los An<feles has not 

and a/V/.v not 

is not 



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